
The widely publicised shipwreck off the coast of Calais on 24 November, which left 27 dead, drew a few crocodile tears from the sharks that govern France and England. A show of hypocrisy that does not hide the truth: the deadly closure of the increasingly militarised maritime border of the Channel are the first responsible.
Image above: “The real enemy travels by private jet not dinghy”. (Tag on a wall in Dover town centre, October 2021)
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